Letter: Media malign candidates like Scott Walker

I am decrying the totally deceptive caption in the HTR’s July 20 print edition with the article “Walker’s journey to childhood home leaves girl in tears.”

Give me a break. His journey to his childhood home had nothing to do with her tears. Her tears were a result of her asking a “gotcha” question in the middle of Iowa.

No wonder we have a poorly-informed — nay, uninformed — bunch of voters. The media do their best to malign candidates with whom they disagree. Gov. Scott Walker’s response was accurate — we are a country of laws. Nothing more needs to be said.

I am tired of the rising breed of “new totalitarians” deciding that if you do not agree with their opinions, you are wrong and a bad person. Conservatives who disagree with liberal social issues are good, caring people with a different opinion — so far as I know, that is still allowed in this country.

We had better watch out, however, because with the help of an incredibly biased news media — print and TV — these new totalitarians are working to shut up everyone who doesn’t agree with their leftist ideology.

The First Amendment still gives us our right to free speech, and according to George Orwell, “Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”